https://www.cnet.com/news/strange-giant-exoplanet-could-be-the-best-place-to-look-for-livable-exomoons/

What Astronomers Can Learn From Hot Jupiters, the Scorching Giant Planets of the Galaxy

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News outlets that said otherwise are just crying wolf—but they’re not the only ones at fault.

The planet in question, K2-18b, orbits a star just 110 light-years away—right next door on cosmic scales. On Wednesday, it was widely reported as a "habitable world." The headlines were prompted by two new studies that detected water in the planet's atmosphere with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Don't get me wrong, this is a very exciting result. K2-18b is the smallest planet where atmospheric features have been detected so far (a monumental...

“It’s kind of some mental gymnastics that you have to do to imagine the planet as a real place,” says Dr. Kreidberg, who wasn’t involved in either study. “It’s hard sometimes to really grasp the reality of these planets that are so foreign compared to anything that we’ve seen in the solar system, that are so far away that we can’t actually see them.” 

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2019/0913/Astronomers-find-water-vapor-on-distant-temperate-...